The Offering Fields

Underneath and beyond the tremendous Mountains of the West, the Offering Fields offer peace and prosperity to the souls of the righteous. Seven enormous gates provide passage to the Seven Halls, each one of which is a cavern large enough to hold several cities. Each of the Seven Halls contains prosperous farms and estates, the reward of the righteous dead. Deeper under the mountains beyond the Seven Halls lie the Pillars of the West, twenty-one enormous pillars each standing at the entrance of another huge cavern, with each of those cavers holding more idyllic towns and plantations. Beyond the Pillars of the West are the Fourteen States, a barrier zone between the Pillars and Osiris's realm beyond. The Fourteen States stand in stark contrast to the peaceful realms of the Offering Fields, for they are full of lava flows, mud pits, and demons -- servants and guardians of the Pharaonic gods, despite their fearsome natures.   Past the Fourteen States lies Fair Ament, a broad valley on the far side of the Mountains of the West. While the caverns under the Mountains are the homes of departed mortal souls and minor godlings (including Imhotep), most of the important deities of the Pharonic pantheon reside in Fair Ament -- including Anubis, Hathor, Isis, Nephtys, Osiris, and Thoth. All these deities spend much time in the Hall of Truth, where they participate in the judgment of mortal souls. Anubis guides each departed soul through the halls under the Mountains of the West to this Hall of Truth. There, the soul is weighed on the balance against the Feather of Ma'at, while the judges consider the dead person's deeds. Virtuous souls are assigned their eternal home in the Seven Halls or the Pillars of the West, while damned souls are consumed by Am-mit, a hideous monster with the head of a crocodile, the body of a hippopotamus, and the claws of a lion.   As an Outer Plane, the Offering Fields is divinely morphic and mildly good-aligned.